Questions and answers
Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
- Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
- Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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Question reference: S6W-26350
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 2 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on what impact its decision not to replicate in Scotland the non-domestic rates relief available to hospitality businesses in England has had on (a) jobs and (b) growth in the sector.
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Question reference: S6W-26182
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many children and young people have been treated in adult mental health services in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board or any treated outside of Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-26181
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 27 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many homes in each local authority area have currently been identified as containing reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).
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Question reference: S6W-26180
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 27 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on progressing the reported proposals for three-year core funding for the third sector.
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Question reference: S6W-26184
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 26 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question (a) S6W-15576 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 27 March 2023 and (b) S6W-17101 by Jenny Gilruth on 22 May 2023, whether it will provide the same information for 2022-23.
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Question reference: S6W-26008
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 18 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25115 by Jenni Minto on 26 February 2024, what response it has received from the (a) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and (b) Food Standards Agency, including counterparts in (i) England, (ii) Wales and (iii) Northern Ireland, regarding the development of a four-nation policy proposal under the UK Food Compositional Standards and Labelling Common Framework in relation to mandatory braille labelling of food products.
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Question reference: S6W-26183
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 18 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on taking forward the UK National Screening Committee recommendation that all four UK nations should move towards implementing targeted lung cancer screening programmes.
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Question reference: S6W-25917
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 18 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment to the co-production of plans for the proposed National Care Service, and the reported importance of such an approach to different stakeholders, particularly people who need and use social care, and of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care in Scotland highlighting the role of communities and community groups in social care, what steps it is taking to ensure that these groups are involved in shaping any revised plans.
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Question reference: S6W-25910
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 15 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, as part of its work to tackle online bullying and harassment, what its position is on (a) the current regulation of mobile app companies and (b) in-app support tools for users to report online bullying and harassment.
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Question reference: S6W-25909
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 15 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, as part of its work to tackle online bullying and harassment, what recent discussions it has had with mobile app companies regarding any support that they currently provide to users to report online bullying and harassment.
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